Shimon Schocken is professor and founding dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya, a young Israeli university he helped found in 1995. He was also a tenured professor at NYU (1985-1995) and a visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and Stanford (2012). Shimon enjoys developing innovative courses and open source software to promote free web-based science education. Shimon's other passion is mountain biking, a subject about which he wrote a book in Hebrew, published by Kinerent-Zmora-Modan.